Dr. Simon (Kevin M. Simon, MD) is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu. He is leading a City-wide public health strategy through an equity lens to meet Boston's growing behavioral health needs through the Boston Public Health Commission. Dr. Simon is a polymath: a physician-scientist, a healthcare policy expert, an inspirational teacher, and a noted writer. He is an attending child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a Commonwealth Fund...read more